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Quick question about snake skins...

I have a toxaway tarp and want to use snake skins with it, but I don't know what size will fit my tarp. Can someone clarify the different sizes of snake skins and what dimensions I'm looking for in relation from my tarp and the skins.

Some folks use HH snake skins. There use to be a few different sizes but i think their all #4 or large now. That works well for most sil tarps. Some folks prefer Mesh skins made from no-se-um netting. If your going to buy there's a woman in Ncal, mountaingoat on the forum , who makes made to order mesh snake skins . My last mesh skins i made in two parts, one for each end of the tarp and i believe the taper was 8" and 4", that was for a spinn tarp i have but sil could be made narrower.

bill

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Don't know if you want to do it, but since you have a Doubenest like me, I cut the side flaps off and had my wife sew one skin for my Toxaway. Used one whole side and about 3 feet of the other side. Works great

Don't know if you want to do it, but since you have a Doubenest like me, I cut the side flaps off and had my wife sew one skin for my Toxaway. Used one whole side and about 3 feet of the other side. Works great

So if I pull that stitching out, is there a hem left or is it just a raw edge? I'd do it myself but I'm worried to rip the material.

I was in a hurry to leave when I posted, so it wasn't as clear as it should have been. I cut the flaps close to the main body with scissors, so I did not cut or remove the stitching, that way the structure is still sound. There will be some fraying of the remaining flap material. I believe there is a post on the ENO subforum about ways to remove the side flaps, probably ways to make a cleaner cut than with scissors so you don't get any fuzzies.

Anyways, after the flaps are cut they are wide enough to sew a double hem to make the snakeskin tube. You can either make the traditional double tube or sew enough length on to one end to make a single tube like I did.

Hope this makes sense. If I had a way to make digital pictures to post it would be easy to see what I'm talking about.